Friday, after deciding the ole' relationship needed a tiny kick in the booty, kate and I went out for once (oh my god!) and took a trip to DC to have some HORRIBLE mexican food and then wandered around the national cathedral's gardens for some romantic goodness and crap (I only added "crap" to make this post more penis-centric baby, I swear...)

Saturday we took a trip back to jason's house to work on the stereo a bit and deliver a big ass japanese maple. Imagine a slammed dub cruising down the highway with a trunk full of tools, fuel cells and a tree that literally looks identical to a pot plant. Yeah good times =)

I brought my angle grinder to kill a few birds while I was down in the country as my dickhead of a neighbour has decided to narc me out if I even come remotely close to my car with a screwdriver nowadays so all of the heavy work has to be done elsewhere. God how I love condo nazis.

We removed the spare tire post to make room for the fuel cell...




Then I needed to devise a way to strap the sub down to the trunk but also keep it movable if I needed to move anything with the car (like it's going to be utilitarian once it gets painted haha) so I removed the seatbelt guides from the B-pillar and used them as strap guides instead.

The biggest issue was drilling into the floor as an ugly gas tank sat directly below the sheet metal. "Well, wouldn't the screw essentially "close" the hole if I drilled into it? I mean, how much gas would come out with a tiny screw hole right?" I said with the shaking dissaproval of Kate. "Oh well, I guess we can get jason to weld it..."


Grind grind grind


And finally welded the last strap guide down


Then we moved onto the amp install. I bought most of the audio fairly quickly months ago as I was offered a really nice deal from Tweeter buuut forgot that this project we moved up to a 10" sub but stuck with the same amp we used with our MK2 buildup. The sub is a dual voicecoil 10" @ 4ohms. The amp is bridgable to a mono setup @ 4ohms. Sadly if I ran the sub in parallel it would drop the sub down to 2 ohms and the amp just can't go that low. Doh. Oh well. And the worst part about it is that the damn MK3 seats are way low and scratched the shit out of the amp face after install. Poop no returns for me.



Thhhhen we moved onto the exhaust pipes. I want to shave the rear bumper cutout and if I did, the exhaust pipes would hit the new plastic I'd weld in so the tips had to go!

One would think a cut-off wheel would work right?


Nah.


How about a Sawzall?


Nope. So we removed the rear subframe bumper thing and used an industrial cutoff wheel.
Now that's some quality work right there *winks*


Lastly on sunday I decided to install the sub while kate was doing her own thing (still haven't fired it up though boo!).
As the sub would be downfiring, I needed to raise it up a bit off the floor to get the air out.


So I made some feet for it and sealed everything up after adding some baffling...




Hawwwwt.

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